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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 17, 1905.

Application filed November 15, 1904. Serial No. 232,819.

To all? whom, t may concern.'

Be it known that I, CHARLES THOMPSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Beds, of which the following is a This invention is a bed characterized by novelty and improvement with respect to the means for supporting the bed-springs, with the object of rendering the bed more easy and comfortable than beds constructed hitherto.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of the bed. Fig. 2 is adetail in plan. Fig. 3 is a cross-section on the line?) 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detail showing how the support for the bed-springs may be turned out of the way when packing the bed.

Referring specically to the drawings, the bedposts are indicated at 6, connected in the usual manner by side rails 7.

8 indicates a woven-wire bed-spring fastened at the ends to angle-irons 9, the lower flanges of which are preferably comparatively wide. These angle-irons are fastened to tubular side bars 10 by straps 11,the whole forming the bed-bottom. This bed-bottom is supported at head and foot upon the side rails 7 by means of hangers l2. These hangers rest at their ends upon the rails 7 and extend across between the same and are dropped under the bed-bottom, as shown, to afford room for the springs which support the bed-bottom. Each hanger has thereon tubular guidecasings 18, in which slide the vertical branches of angular supporting-pieces 14, the horizontal branches of which extend into the ends of the tubular side bars 10. Ooiled springs 15, held between the hangers 12 and collars 16 on the angular supporting-pieces, serve to cushion the bed-bottom with respect to the hangers. It will be understood that the vertical branches of the supporting-pieces 14 are free to work up and down in the tubular casings 13, and said angular supporting-pieces are free to turn in both the tubes 10 and the tubes 13, so that binding is prevented.

It will be seen that the bed-bottom is supported entirely by the hangers, with the springs 15 interposed, whereby an easy and comfortable bed is assured. The parts may be readily taken apart for shipment or transportation, in which case the supports 14 may be conveniently turned in above the hangers, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 4.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-A The combination with hangers supported at their ends on the side rails of the bedstead and dropped between the same, and having tubu- 

